Full field detection in photoacoustic tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 6288-6299

  Nuster, Robert ^a   Zangerl, Gerhard ^b   Haltmeier, Markus ^b   Paltauf, Günther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

FULL-FIELD; INITIAL PRESSURE; INSTANTANEOUS PRESSURE FIELD; LIMITED DATA; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTICAL PHASE; PHOTOACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; RECONSTRUCTION METHOD; WAVE PATTERNS;

PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT;

ACOUSTIC MICROSCOPY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, ACOUSTIC; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 77949596128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006288     Document Type: Article

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